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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: Wild Rose on October 23, 2015, 02:18:59 PM
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MEMORIES from a friend:
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died recently) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons.
Boy, I am old !!!
How many of you remember:-
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turning indicators.
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom
1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. There were only 2 channels (if you were fortunate)
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records >>> Don't forget 78 rpm
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulbs
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient !
I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along! Especially to all you’r really OLD friends - I just did!
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Sometimes I feel so old....
I have vague memories of when JC Himself played half-full on the fence for South Jerusalem Colts!
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how about at school when the teacher had to spend 15min setting up the projector with the two big wheels, front and back, that turned for the film to run through...and inveratbly always got tangled at some point through the film?
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Only thing was the party line, knew about them but we had our own line . . . Because of Dad's work . .
Remember all the rest . . . But I am ancient . .
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I got them all, and remember the following as well:
The greengrocer van with all his stock coming to our home.
Horse and cart bakers van, delivering to home
Night Carts in the back lanes at Whyalla
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Forget the glass milk bottles with the cardboard lid.... I can remember when the milko would stop his horse at the kerb, and decant fresh milk from a stainless steel milk can into our billy with a lid, which sat on a shelf alongside the mail box.... sometimes for a couple of hours because delivery was at 5 am, before it was brought inside to the fridge.
I used to leave an apple in the mailbox the previous night for the milkos' horse.
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Getting older....but I already knew that :OldMan
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I have a yarn about old Joe and the Whyalla night cart, Pete. I was raised in Lockhart Street.
The service lane ran alongside our house and behind it between Lockhart and Raws streets.
(http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/y352/kjm47/Image2_zpsv5sijgjy.jpg)
I had a pet rabbit... she lived in a shed at the very back of the yard, opposite the dunny, for over 11 years.
In that time, she did quite a bit of excavating, about a barrow load of dirt per week or so....
One morning, the Clydes tripped and stumbled because of an unprecedented earth collapse, and this caused the cart to shake as one wheel dropped into the cavity and some cans were dislodged.
Lila Joyce from next door was in her backyard, and heard the commotion.
AND the language..
She put her head over the fence and called "Had an accident, Joe?"
I will NEVER forget his reply, even tho I was only about 7 years old...
"Accident?... NO... I'm bloody STOCKTAKING!.... and I seem to be a sh*t short!" :crackup
Oh yeah... and the greengrocers truck?... Karavas family lived on the opposite side of the street from me, 4 doors down... their shop was on Playford avenue half a block down from the Eyre hotel. I think the Azzopardi family bought them out?
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What has 40 pistons and flies?
Night cart
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Hey Kev,
You were living quite close as we were at 65 Ward Street, on the corner of Bradford. We were there in 1965 and 1966 and I attended the Memorial Oval Primary School when Dad was the Headmaster at Hinks Avenue Primary. It was only a short stay, but I loved it.
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I got them all, and remember the following as well:
The greengrocer van with all his stock coming to our home.
Horse and cart bakers van, delivering to home
Night Carts in the back lanes at Whyalla
From Kev . . Forget the glass milk bottles with the cardboard lid.... I can remember when the milko would stop his horse at the kerb, and decant fresh milk from a stainless steel milk can into our billy with a lid, which sat on a shelf alongside the mail box.... sometimes for a couple of hours because delivery was at 5 am, before it was brought inside to the fridge.
I used to leave an apple in the mailbox the previous night for the milkos' horse.
I remember we had all those plus the ice cart as we didn't have a fridge, also the garbo would run into the backyard take the garbage bin out to the truck and run the empty bin back to it's posi in the backyard, lid back on n all. If at Easter or Chrismas Dad didn't leave a dozen long neck beers out for the dunny and garbo men they would somehow spill some of the contents in the yard on their way to the truck. Oh and we used cut up newspaper in the backyard dunny.
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Hey Kev,
You were living quite close as we were at 65 Ward Street, on the corner of Bradford. We were there in 1965 and 1966 and I attended the Memorial Oval Primary School when Dad was the Headmaster at Hinks Avenue Primary. It was only a short stay, but I loved it.
Well bugger me, Pete?... Hi neighbour! .. you were only round the corner! I was at 102 Lockhart, just behind the house on the corner of Bradford that had the PMG box on the footpath opposite the Memorial Primary. I finished high school '64, and started my apprenticeship at BHP in March '65, aged 17. Mum was running the kitchen at the Eyre hotel at that time.
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bicycles without gears or brakes.
cars without seat belts
bows and arrows
cap guns
poultices
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I had 3 speed gears on the racing bike for road racing, but fixed-wheel gear for the velodrome.
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Don't forget push bikes with back peddle brakes, kerosine fridges when you did not have electricity, sling shots and guy faux night
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Guess who was born the day before Guy Fawkes day?
I used to get lots of crackers as birthday pressies, and fire them off at a bonfire the following night...
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Before the age of 10.5 (end of 1965) I grew up in various SA Railway towns. At that time we moved to Adelaide where we all this modern electric stuff.
Wood stoves/ovens in the kitchen. No hot water for dishes unless you heated it on the stove.
Wood fire in the lounge room if you were lucky otherwise a kerosene heater did the job.
Wood chip heater for the shower/bath hot water
Wood fired copper in the laundry.
No air conditioning unless you opened a window.
We had a kerosene fridge.
If we went camping we had a kerosene stove plus an oven that could sit on the stove and a Kerosene lamp.
Two movies at the cinema and drive in plus cartoons etc. at intermission.
Doctors made house calls day or night.
Dad used to desalinate water for mums first electric iron before that it was a kerosene one.
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Four Yorkshiremen Sketch
Monty Python
Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort.
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry Gilliam: You're right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who'd a thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
GC: A cup ' COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness."
EI: 'E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN'. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say "house" it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope..
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:rofl :rofl
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Or you can watch them do the skit at . . .
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube
http://youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo (http://youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo)
Hope this works . .
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Ah yes.... the old woodchip fired Torrens water heater in the bathroom... used to take half an hour or more to heat up and run a hot bath... :grin .... and then be told to hurry up, as others in the house wanted a hot bath too! ... and the newspaper or magazines cut into sheets for the dunny... but not the glossy paper magazines, HELL NO! .... and I remember when the wood fired stove was replaced with the new fangled 'lekky one... and the copper boiler on the back verandah, but we had a 'lekky immersion heater for heating the water for the washing. 3 power points in the whole house, 1 in the kitchen with a double adaptor for the fridge and the toaster or kettle or iron, one on the back verandah with a double adaptor for the immersion heater and the washing machine, and 1 powerpoint in the lounge for the radiogram.
After I started my apprenticeship in (March?) 1965, the first thing I did at home in August was replace the 3 single powerpoints with doubles, and added another power circuit and 3 more double powerpoints, one in each of the two bedrooms and one in the sleepout opposite the laundry area. Dad was so pleased at this, he went and bought a GE Lekky blanket for each of the three beds in preparation for next winter. I lost my dad 1st Feb 1966, 3 days before his 54th birthday. He never got to experience his flash new lekky blanket.
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While I was chatting to a friend today, his 15 year old son was fooling around with his x-box.
I said to the mate "Remember when we had to load games on the Atari from cassette tape?"
His son asked... "What's a cassette tape?" :o
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My 35 year old niece thinks that a yard is where you keep your dog. Never heard of it as a unit of measurement.
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Remember when we used to stand up and sing 'God Save the Queen' before the first film at the cinema. I'm not sure when that stopped.
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Remember when we used to stand up and sing 'God Save the Queen' before the first film at the cinema. I'm not sure when that stopped.
The Bigglette and I had an Austin A40 with a sunroof. I used to stand up at the Drive-in for the National Anthem. 8)
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Remember when we used to stand up and sing 'God Save the Queen' before the first film at the cinema. I'm not sure when that stopped.
The Bigglette and I had an Austin A40 with a sunroof. I used to stand up at the Drive-in for the National Anthem. 8)
What did you do when it rained Bill?
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Local BMC club in Whyalla in the late 60's... we used to go to the drive-in, and park 3 minis between each speaker post a couple of rows in front of the projector room/kiosk... when there are about 50 cars involved, it means that other patrons had to walk all the way around, as there was no room between the cars to walk through ... :p
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When I lived in Whyalla (about 1978) we used to get a few trucks parked behind the drive-in. Seeing the movie wasn't a problem and sound was relayed via someone with CB radio in the drive-in.
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When I was aged 13, I was paid ten shillings a day, 8 am to 6 pm (2 Saturdays and 2 Sundays) by a local contractor, to connect speaker boxes on the poles at the Whyalla drive in during construction.